1854 and 1855 United States House of Representatives elections

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 34th Congress were held during President Franklin Pierce's term at various dates in different states from August 1854 to November 1855.

1854 and 1855 U.S. House of Representatives elections

August 4, 1854 – November 6, 1855
All 234 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives[1] 118 seats needed for a majority
Leader William A. Richardson Henry M. Fuller Nathaniel P. Banks Party Democratic Whig Know Nothing Leader's seat Illinois 5th Pennsylvania 12th Massachusetts 7th Last election 150 seats 71 seats 0 seats Seats won 81[lower-alpha 1][2][3] 54[lower-alpha 2] 51[2][3][lower-alpha 3] Seat change 69 17 51 Popular vote 1,418,553[lower-alpha 4] 580,929 631,510 Percentage 43.95% 18.00% 19.56% Swing 5.87% 23.61% 19.25%   Party Anti-Nebraska Republican People's Last election Pre-creation Pre-creation Pre-creation Seats won 22[lower-alpha 2] 13[lower-alpha 2] 9[4][lower-alpha 2] Seat change 22 13 9 Popular vote 196,461 182,245 102,423 Percentage 6.09% 5.65% 3.17% Swing New Party New Party New Party   Party Free Soil Independent Last election 4 seats 3 seats Seats won 1[lower-alpha 2] 1[lower-alpha 5] Seat change 3 2 Popular vote 22,928 84,196[lower-alpha 6] Percentage 0.71% 2.61% Swing 3.28% 0.18%
Results:      Democratic gain      Whig gain      Democratic hold      Whig hold      American gain      Anti-Nebraska gain      Republican gain      People's gain      Independent gain
Speaker before election Linn Boyd Democratic Elected Speaker Nathaniel P. Banks Know Nothing

This midterm election was among the most disruptive in American history, auguring the collapse of the Second Party System.

Both major parties, the Democratic Party and the Whig Party, organized as rivals for roughly 20 years, lost critical voter support. Democrats lost 69 seats, nearly half their House delegation, with Northern voters strongly opposed to the Kansas–Nebraska Act shifting sharply against them. Whigs lost 17 seats as the party disintegrated over slavery.

The elected majority temporarily coalesced as the Opposition Party. This transitional party included Whigs, Free Soil members, American Party members (or Know Nothings), the People's Party of Indiana, Anti-Nebraska candidates, disaffected Northern Democrats, and members of the nascent Republican Party, which would soon absorb most of these factions and replace the Whigs as rival to the Democrats.

Candidates opposed to the Democratic Party won widely in the North through November 1854. The American Party, ignoring slavery and opposing immigration (particularly by Catholics from Ireland and Germany) won seats from both major parties, but to the net loss of Democrats, in New England and the South from November 1854 into 1855.

Congress had passed the Kansas–Nebraska Act in May 1854 after aggressive sponsorship by the Pierce Administration and Democrats led by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas, including an outspoken contingent of radical pro-slavery legislators. The Act repealed the 1820 Missouri Compromise and triggered the Bleeding Kansas conflict. With widely foreseen risks and immediately negative results, the Act publicly discredited the Democratic Party, fueling new partisan and sectional rancor. It created violent uncertainty on the frontier by abruptly making slavery potentially legal in territories originally comprising the northern portion of the Louisiana Purchase and attractive to contemporary settlers. Settlers were expected to determine the status of slavery locally. This idea appealed to Democratic politicians and to some voters in its shape and intent, but proved unworkable in Kansas where the status of slavery would be closely disputed between more numerous Northern settlers and geographically closer Southern settlers. Even some pro-slavery voters, particularly Southern Whigs, felt repealing the Missouri Compromise was politically reckless and attempting to push slavery by law and force into territories where most settlers predictably were unlikely to want it endangered its continued legal protection anywhere, even in the South. These fears proved prescient.

The election of the Speaker was the most contentious in history, as 21 Representatives sought the post. After two months and 133 ballots, American Party Representative Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts, also a Free Soiler, defeated Democrat William Aiken of South Carolina by plurality and by three votes, 103-100.[5] Banks is also the only Speaker from a third party to date.

Election summaries

State	Type	Date	Total seats	Opposition		Democratic		Know Nothing
				Seats	Change[lower-alpha 7]	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Arkansas	Districts	August 4, 1854	2	0		2		0
Iowa	Districts	August 7, 1854	2	1		1		0
Missouri	Districts		7	6	2	1	2	0
Vermont	Districts	September 5, 1854	3	3		0		0
California	At-large	September 6, 1854	2	0		2		0
Maine	Districts	September 11, 1854	6	5	2	1	2	0
Florida	At-large	October 2, 1854	1	0		1		0
South Carolina	Districts	October 9–10, 1854	6	0		6		0
Indiana	Districts	October 10, 1854	11	9	8	2	8	0
Ohio	Districts		21	21	12	0	12	0
Pennsylvania	Districts		25	17	8	7	9	1	1
Illinois	Districts	November 7, 1854 (Election Day)[lower-alpha 8]	9	4		5		0
Michigan	Districts		4	3	3	1	3	0
New Jersey	Districts		5	4	3	1	3	0
New York	Districts		33	25	13	5	16	3	3
Wisconsin	Districts		3	2	2	1	2	0
Massachusetts	Districts	November 12, 1854	11	0	10	0	1	11	11
Delaware	At-large	November 14, 1854	1	0		0	1	1	1
Late elections (after the March 4, 1855 beginning of the term)
New Hampshire	Districts	March 13, 1855	3	0		0	3	3	3
Connecticut	Districts	April 2, 1855	4	0		0	4	4	4
Rhode Island	Districts	April 4, 1855	2	0		0	2	2	2
Virginia	Districts	May 24, 1855	13	0		12	1	1	1
North Carolina	Districts	August 2, 1855	8	0	3	5		3	3
Tennessee	Districts		10	0	5	5		5	5
Alabama	Districts	August 6, 1855	7	0	1	5	1	2	2
Kentucky	Districts		10	0	5	4	1	6	6
Texas	Districts		2	0		1	1	1	1
Georgia	Districts	October 1, 1855	8	0	2	6		2	2
Louisiana	Districts	November 5, 1855	4	0	1	3		1	1
Mississippi	Districts[lower-alpha 9]	November 5–6, 1855	5	0		4	1	1	1
Maryland	Districts	November 6, 1855	6	0	2	2	2	4	4
Total			234	100[2][3] 42.7%	29[lower-alpha 10]	83[2][3] 35.0%	75	51[2][3] 21.8%	51

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83	51	100
Democratic	Know Nothing	Opposition

Popular vote Anti-Nebraska   6.09% Democratic   43.95% Free Soil   0.71% Independent   2.61% Know Nothing   19.56% Others   0.26% People's   3.17% Republican   5.65% Whig   18.00%

House seats Anti-Nebraska   9.40% Democratic   34.62% Free Soil   0.43% Independent   0.43% Know Nothing   21.79% People's   3.85% Republican   5.56% Whig   23.08%

Special elections

There were two special elections to the 33rd United States Congress, listed here by date and district.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Pennsylvania 8	Henry A. Muhlenberg	Democratic	1852	Incumbent died January 9, 1854. New member elected February 4, 1854. Democratic hold.	Jehu Glancy Jones (Democratic) 60.01% William H. Keim (Whig) 39.99%
Massachusetts 1	Zeno Scudder	Whig	1850	Incumbent resigned March 4, 1854. New member elected April 17, 1854. Whig hold.	Thomas D. Eliot (Whig) 52.04% Abraham H. Howland (Independent) 47.96%
New York 12	Gilbert Dean	Democratic	1850	Incumbent resigned July 3, 1854. New member elected November 7, 1854. Whig gain.	Isaac Teller (Whig) 50.56% Samuel F. B. Morse (Soft-Shell Democratic) 31.27% Charles Robinson (Hard-Shell Democratic) 18.17%
Kentucky 3	Presley Ewing	Whig	1851	Incumbent died September 27, 1854. New member elected November 13, 1854. Whig hold.	Francis Bristow (Whig) 81.58% A. J. Halberson (Unknown) 18.42%

Alabama

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Alabama 1	Philip Phillips	Democratic	1853	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Percy Walker (Know Nothing) 52.40% James Adams Stallworth (Democratic) 47.60%
Alabama 2	James Abercrombie	Whig	1851	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic gain.	Eli Sims Shorter (Democratic) 54.89% Julius Caesar Alford (Know Nothing) 45.11%
Alabama 3	James Ferguson Dowdell	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	James Ferguson Dowdell (Democratic) 52.20% Thomas H. Watts (Know Nothing) 47.80%
Alabama 4	William Russell Smith	Democratic	1851	Incumbent re-elected. Know Nothing gain.	William Russell Smith (Know Nothing) 59.83% Sydenham Moore (Democratic) 40.17%
Alabama 5	George S. Houston	Democratic	1843	Incumbent re-elected.	George S. Houston (Democratic) 100.00% unopposed
Alabama 6	Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb	Democratic	1847	Incumbent re-elected.	Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (Democratic) 62.87% James M. Adams (Independent) 37.13%
Alabama 7	Sampson Willis Harris	Democratic	1847	Incumbent re-elected.	Sampson Willis Harris (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]

Arkansas

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Arkansas 1	Alfred B. Greenwood	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Alfred B. Greenwood (Democratic) 97.99% W.C. Myrtle (Independent) 2.01%
Arkansas 2	Edward A. Warren	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	Albert Rust (Democratic) 65.95% E.G. Walker (Whig) 34.05%

California

Note: From statehood to 1864, California's representatives were elected at-large, with the top two vote-getters winning election from 1849 to 1858.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
California at-large 2 seats	Milton S. Latham	Democratic	1852	Incumbent withdrew. New member elected. Democratic hold.	(Elected on a general ticket) James W. Denver (anti-Broderick Democratic) 22.41% Philemon T. Herbert (anti-Broderick Democratic) 22.24% George W. Bowie (Whig) 21.14% Calhoun Benham (Whig) 20.94% James Churchman (Broderick Democratic) 6.09% James A. McDougall (Broderick Democratic) 6.07% Milton S. Latham (Broderick Democratic) 1.12%[6]
	James A. McDougall	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Democratic hold.

Connecticut

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Connecticut 1	James T. Pratt	Democratic	1853	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Ezra Clark Jr. (Know Nothing) 52.11% James T. Pratt (Democratic) 47.89%
Connecticut 2	Colin M. Ingersoll	Democratic	1851	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	John Woodruff (Know Nothing) 55.50% Samuel Arnold (Democratic) 44.50%
Connecticut 3	Nathan Belcher	Democratic	1853	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Sidney Dean (Know Nothing) 67.51% Joel W. White (Democratic) 32.49%
Connecticut 4	Origen S. Seymour	Democratic	1851	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	William W. Welch (Know Nothing) 56.07% William H. Noble (Democratic) 43.94%

Delaware

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Delaware at-large	George R. Riddle	Democratic	1850	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Elisha D. Cullen (Know Nothing) 51.85% George R. Riddle (Democratic) 48.15%

Florida

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Florida at-large	Augustus Maxwell	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Augustus Maxwell (Democratic) 55.26% Thomas Brown (Whig) 44.74%

Georgia

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Georgia 1	James Lindsay Seward	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	James Lindsay Seward (Democratic) 57.62% Samuel Varnadoe (Know Nothing) 42.38%
Georgia 2	Alfred H. Colquitt	Democratic	1853	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	Martin J. Crawford (Democratic) 51.99% Willis Hawkins (Know Nothing) 48.01%
Georgia 3	David Jackson Bailey	Democratic	1851	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Robert Pleasant Trippe (Know Nothing) 53.97% James Milton Smith (Democratic) 46.03%
Georgia 4	William Barton Wade Dent	Democratic	1853	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	Hiram B. Warner (Democratic) 50.26% Benjamin Harvey Hill (Know Nothing) 49.74%
Georgia 5	Elijah Webb Chastain	Democratic	1851	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	John Henry Lumpkin (Democratic) 58.61% Lewis Tumblin (Know Nothing) 41.39%
Georgia 6	Junius Hillyer	Democratic	1851	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	Howell Cobb (Democratic) 63.78% Leonidas Franklin (Know Nothing) 36.22%
Georgia 7	David Addison Reese	Whig	1853	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Nathaniel Greene Foster (Know Nothing) 51.13% Linton Stephens (Democratic) 48.87%
Georgia 8	Alexander Stephens	Whig	1853	Incumbent re-elected. Democratic gain.	Alexander Stephens (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]

Illinois

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Illinois 1	Elihu B. Washburne	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected to a new party. Republican gain.	Elihu B. Washburne (Republican) 69.33% William M. Jackson (Democratic) 22.99% E. P. Ferry (Anti-Nebraska) 7.68%
Illinois 2	John Wentworth	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain.	James H. Woodworth (Republican) 53.05% Robert S. Blackwell (Whig) 19.84% John B. Turner (Democratic) 19.48% Edward L. Mayo (Anti-Nebraska) 7.63%
Illinois 3	Jesse O. Norton	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected to a new party. Republican gain.	Jesse O. Norton (Republican) 62.76% John A. Drake (Democratic) 37.24%
Illinois 4	James Knox	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected to a new party. Republican gain.	James Knox (Republican) 57.22% William McMurtry (Democratic) 42.79%
Illinois 5	William A. Richardson	Democratic	1847 (special)	Incumbent re-elected.	William A. Richardson (Democratic) 52.38% Archibald Williams (Republican) 47.62%
Illinois 6	Richard Yates	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Democratic gain.	Thomas L. Harris (Democratic) 50.50% Richard Yates (Whig) 49.50%
Illinois 7	James C. Allen	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected. Election disqualified. Democratic loss.	James C. Allen (Democratic) 50.00% William Beatty Archer (Whig) 50.00%
Illinois 8	William Henry Bissell	Independent Democratic	1848	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Lyman Trumbull (Anti-Nebraska) 59.87% Philip Bond Fouke (Democratic) 40.13%
Illinois 9	Willis Allen	Democratic	1850	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	Samuel S. Marshall (Democratic) 64.67% G. Jay S. Turney (Republican) 22.15% DeWitt C. Barber (Unknown) 9.71% A. Grow (Unknown) 2.05% S. A. Rowan (Unknown) 1.42%

Indiana

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Indiana 1	Smith Miller	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Smith Miller (Democratic) 52.15% Sam Hall (People's) 47.85%
Indiana 2	William Hayden English	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	William Hayden English (Democratic) 51.70% Thomas C. Slaught (People's) 48.30%
Indiana 3	Cyrus L. Dunham	Democratic	1849	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. People's gain.	George G. Dunn (People's) 54.53% Cyrus L. Dunham (Democratic) 45.47%
Indiana 4	James H. Lane	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. People's gain.	William Cumback (People's) 51.92% William G. Holman (Democratic) 48.08%
Indiana 5	Samuel W. Parker	Whig	1851	Incumbent retired. New member elected. People's gain.	David P. Holloway (People's) 64.25% J. J. Buckles (Democratic) 35.76%
Indiana 6	Thomas A. Hendricks	Democratic	1851	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. People's gain.	Lucien Barbour (People's) 51.41% Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic) 48.59%
Indiana 7	John G. Davis	Democratic	1851	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. People's gain.	Harvey D. Scott (People's) 52.58% John G. Davis (Democratic) 47.42%
Indiana 8	Daniel Mace	Democratic	1851	Incumbent re-elected. People's gain.	Daniel Mace (People's) 56.92% James Davis (Democratic) 43.08%
Indiana 9	Norman Eddy	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. People's gain.	Schuyler Colfax (People's) 54.85% Norman Eddy (Democratic) 45.15%
Indiana 10	Ebenezer M. Chamberlain	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. People's gain.	Samuel Brenton (People's) 56.00% Ebenezer M. Chamberlain (Democratic) 44.00%
Indiana 11	Andrew J. Harlan	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. People's gain.	John U. Pettit (People's) 56.59% James R. Slack (Democratic) 43.41%

Iowa

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Iowa 1	Bernhart Henn	Democratic	1850	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	Augustus Hall (Democratic) 50.27% R.L. Clark (Whig) 49.50% J.L. Ashbaugh (Independent) 0.23%
Iowa 2	William Vandever	Whig	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Whig hold.	James Thorington (Whig) 53.33% Stephen P. Hempstead (Democratic) 46.09% Augustus Hall (Independent) 0.57%

Kansas Territory

See Non-voting delegates, below.

Kentucky

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Kentucky 1
Kentucky 2
Kentucky 3
Kentucky 4
Kentucky 5
Kentucky 6
Kentucky 7
Kentucky 8
Kentucky 9
Kentucky 10

Louisiana

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Louisiana 1
Louisiana 2
Louisiana 3
Louisiana 4

Maine

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Maine 1	Moses Macdonald	Democratic	1850	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain.	John M. Wood (Republican) 59.36% Samuel Wells (Democratic) 39.91% Lorenzo D. Wilkinson (Independent) 0.74%
Maine 2	Samuel Mayall	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain.	John J. Perry (Republican) 56.88% William K. Kimball (Democratic) 42.46% Charles J. Gilman (Independent) 0.66%
Maine 3	E. Wilder Farley	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Republican gain.	Ebenezer Knowlton (Republican) 43.94% Jonathan G. Dickerson (Democratic) 30.78% E. Wilder Farley (Whig) 25.28%
Maine 4	Samuel P. Benson	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected to a new party. Republican gain.	Samuel P. Benson (Republican) 77.05% George Rogers (Democratic) 22.95%
Maine 5	Israel Washburn Jr.	Whig	1850	Incumbent re-elected to a new party. Republican gain.	Israel Washburn Jr. (Republican) 63.09% Samuel H. Blake (Democratic) 36.91%
Maine 6	Thomas J. D. Fuller	Democratic	1848	Incumbent re-elected.	Thomas J. D. Fuller (Democratic) 42.39% James A. Milliken (Republican) 38.74% Noah Smith (Whig) 18.88%

Maryland

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Maryland 1
Maryland 2
Maryland 3
Maryland 4
Maryland 5
Maryland 6

Massachusetts

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Massachusetts 1	Thomas D. Eliot	Whig	1854 (special)	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	Robert B. Hall (American) 63.70% Thomas D. Eliot (Whig) 26.63% Abraham H. Rowland (Democratic) 9.66%
Massachusetts 2	Samuel L. Crocker	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	James Buffinton (American) 68.25% Samuel L. Crocker (Whig) 16.20% Charles R. Vickery (Democratic) 9.01% Gersham B. Weston (Free Soil) 6.55%
Massachusetts 3	J. Wiley Edmands	Whig	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	William S. Damrell (American) 74.76% Nathaniel F. Safford (Whig) 16.67% Edward Avery (Democratic) 5.38% Arthur W. Austin (Independent) 2.26%
Massachusetts 4	Samuel H. Walley	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	Linus B. Comins (American) 57.45% Samuel H. Walley (Whig) 32.00% Samuel R. Skinner (Democratic) 10.55%
Massachusetts 5	William Appleton	Whig	1850	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	Anson Burlingame (American) 61.64% William Appleton (Whig) 32.12% William Parmenter (Democratic) 6.24%
Massachusetts 6	Charles W. Upham	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	Timothy Davis (American) 65.39% Charles W. Upham (Whig) 28.44% Nathaniel J. Lord (Democratic) 5.57% George Hood (Independent) 0.59%
Massachusetts 7	Nathaniel P. Banks	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected to a new party. Know-Nothing gain.	Nathaniel P. Banks (American) 73.53% Luther Bell (Whig) 20.43% Bowen Buckman (Democratic) 6.04%
Massachusetts 8	Tappan Wentworth	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	Chauncey L. Knapp (American) 62.80% Tappan Wentworth (Whig) 31.88% Daniel Needham (Democratic) 5.32%
Massachusetts 9	Alexander DeWitt	Free Soil	1852	Incumbent re-elected to a new party. Know-Nothing gain.	Alexander DeWitt (American) 76.97% Isaac Davis (Democratic) 13.36% Ira M. Barton (Whig) 7.45% Alfred Mowrey (Independent) 1.42% William P. Marble (Independent) 0.46% Scattering 0.34%
Massachusetts 10	Edward Dickinson	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know-Nothing gain.	Henry Morris (American) 65.35% Edward Dickinson (Whig) 23.33% Stephen C. Bemis (Democratic) 11.32%
Massachusetts 11	John Z. Goodrich	Whig	1852	Know-Nothing gain.	Mark Trafton (American)

Michigan

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Michigan 1	David Stuart	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Republican gain.	William Alanson Howard (Republican) 53.10% David Stuart (Democratic) 46.90%
Michigan 2	David A. Noble	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Republican gain.	Henry Waldron (Republican) 57.67% David A. Noble (Democratic) 42.33%
Michigan 3	Samuel Clark	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Republican gain.	David S. Walbridge (Republican) 44.17% Samuel Clark (Democratic) 55.83%
Michigan 4	Hestor L. Stevens	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	George Washington Peck (Democratic) 53.25% Moses Wisner (Republican) 46.75%

Minnesota Territory

See Non-voting delegates, below.

Mississippi

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Mississippi 1
Mississippi 2
Mississippi 3
Mississippi 4
Mississippi 5

Missouri

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Missouri 1	Thomas Hart Benton	Opposition	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Whig gain.	Luther M. Kennett (Whig) 54.16% Thomas Hart Benton (Benton Democratic) 45.84%
Missouri 2	Alfred W. Lamb	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Whig gain.	Gilchrist Porter (Whig) 54.14% Tully Cornick (Benton Democratic) 45.86%
Missouri 3	James J. Lindley	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	James J. Lindley (Whig) 52.46% Augustus W. Fournoy (Democratic) 47.54%
Missouri 4	Mordecai Oliver	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Mordecai Oliver (Whig) 41.95% S.L. Leonard (Democratic) 34.21% Shelton J. Howe (Benton Democratic) 19.08% J.F. Pitt (Ind. Whig) 4.76%
Missouri 5	John G. Miller	Whig	1850	Incumbent re-elected.	John G. Miller (Whig) 46.12% Thomas L. Price (Benton Democratic) 35.50% Warwick Hough (Democratic) 18.38%
Missouri 6	John S. Phelps	Democratic	1844	Incumbent re-elected.	John S. Phelps (Democratic) 51.10% Waldo P. Johnson (Benton Democratic) 48.90%
Missouri 7	Samuel Caruthers	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Samuel Caruthers (Whig) 58.85% Charles Jones (Democratic) 41.15%

Nebraska Territory

See Non-voting delegates, below.

New Hampshire

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New Hampshire 1	George W. Kittredge	Democratic	1853	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	James Pike (Know Nothing) George W. Kittredge (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]
New Hampshire 2	George W. Morrison	Democratic	1853	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Mason Tappan (Know Nothing) George W. Morrison (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]
New Hampshire 3	Harry Hibbard	Democratic	1849	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Aaron H. Cragin (Know Nothing) [data unknown/missing]

New Jersey

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New Jersey 1
New Jersey 2
New Jersey 3
New Jersey 4
New Jersey 5

New York

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New York 1
New York 2
New York 3
New York 4
New York 5
New York 6
New York 7
New York 8
New York 9
New York 10
New York 11
New York 12
New York 13
New York 14
New York 15
New York 16
New York 17
New York 18
New York 19
New York 20
New York 21
New York 22
New York 23
New York 24
New York 25
New York 26
New York 27
New York 28
New York 29
New York 30
New York 31
New York 32
New York 33

North Carolina

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
North Carolina 1
North Carolina 2
North Carolina 3
North Carolina 4
North Carolina 5
North Carolina 6
North Carolina 7
North Carolina 8

Ohio

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Ohio 1	David T. Disney	Democratic	1848	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Timothy C. Day (Anti-Nebraska) 63.46% George H. Pendleton (Democratic) 36.54%
Ohio 2	John Scott Harrison	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	John Scott Harrison (Anti-Nebraska) 66.03% William S. Groesbeck (Democratic) 33.97%
Ohio 3	Lewis D. Campbell	Whig	1848	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Lewis D. Campbell (Anti-Nebraska) 58.25% Clement Vallandigham (Democratic) 41.75%
Ohio 4	Matthias H. Nichols	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Matthias H. Nichols (Anti-Nebraska) 70.19% G. V. Dorsey (Democratic) 29.81%
Ohio 5	Alfred Edgerton	Democratic	1850	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Richard Mott (Anti-Nebraska) 61.62% Henry S. Cowager (Democratic) 38.38%
Ohio 6	Andrew Ellison	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Jonas R. Emrie (Anti-Nebraska) 65.04% Andrew Ellison (Democratic) 34.96%
Ohio 7	Aaron Harlan	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Aaron Harlan (Anti-Nebraska) 81.14% Benjamin B. Hinkson (Democratic) 18.86%
Ohio 8	Moses Bledso Corwin	Whig	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Benjamin Stanton (Anti-Nebraska) 75.84% Enoch G. Dial (Democratic) 23.10% J. Newell (Unknown) 1.06%
Ohio 9	Frederick W. Green	Democratic	1850	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Cooper K. Watson (Anti-Nebraska) 59.92% Josiah S. Plants (Democratic) 40.08%
Ohio 10	John L. Taylor	Democratic	1846	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Oscar F. Moore (Anti-Nebraska) 65.32% James W. Davis (Democratic) 34.68%
Ohio 11	Thomas Ritchey	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Valentine B. Horton (Anti-Nebraska) 58.70% Lot L. Smith (Democratic) 41.30%
Ohio 12	Edson B. Olds	Democratic	1848	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Samuel Galloway (Anti-Nebraska) 60.28% Edson B. Olds (Democratic) 39.72%
Ohio 13	William D. Lindsley	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	John Sherman (Anti-Nebraska) 59.80% William D. Lindsley (Democratic) 40.21%
Ohio 14	Harvey H. Johnson	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Philemon Bliss (Anti-Nebraska) 59.26% Harvey H. Johnson (Democratic) 40.74%
Ohio 15	William R. Sapp	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	William R. Sapp (Anti-Nebraska) 58.99% William Dunbar (Democratic) 41.02%
Ohio 16	Edward Ball	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Edward Ball (Anti-Nebraska) 58.89% William Galligher (Democratic) 41.11%
Ohio 17	Wilson Shannon	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Charles J. Albright (Anti-Nebraska) 58.07% Daniel H. Wire (Democratic) 41.93%
Ohio 18	George Bliss	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Benjamin F. Leiter (Anti-Nebraska) 63.36% Ebenezer Spaulding (Democratic) 36.64%
Ohio 19	Edward Wade	Free Soil	1852	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Edward Wade (Anti-Nebraska) 71.07% Eli T. Wilder (Democratic) 28.42% Irad Kelly (Independent) 0.51%
Ohio 20	Joshua Reed Giddings	Free Soil	1843	Incumbent re-elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	Joshua Reed Giddings (Anti-Nebraska) [data unknown/missing]
Ohio 21	Andrew Stuart	Democratic	1848	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Nebraska gain.	John Bingham (Anti-Nebraska) [data unknown/missing]

Oregon Territory

See Non-voting delegates, below.

Pennsylvania

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Pennsylvania 1	Thomas B. Florence	Democratic	1848	Incumbent re-elected.	Thomas B. Florence (Democratic) 51.77% Edward Joy Morris (Whig) 48.23%
Pennsylvania 2	Joseph R. Chandler	Whig	1848	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Whig hold.	Job R. Tyson (Whig) 54.63% John Hamilton (Democratic) 33.82% Joseph R. Chandler (Independent Whig) 11.56%
Pennsylvania 3	John Robbins	Democratic	1848	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Whig gain.	William Millward (Whig) 51.59% James Landy (Democratic) 48.41%
Pennsylvania 4	William Henry Witte	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Jacob Broom (Know Nothing) 49.63% Henry Myer Phillips (Democratic) 44.08% John Lambert (Whig) 6.29%
Pennsylvania 5	John McNair	Democratic	1850	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic hold.	John Cadwalader (Democratic) 50.03% Nathan A. Jones (Whig) 49.97%
Pennsylvania 6	William Everhart	Whig	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic gain.	John Hickman (Democratic) 58.97% John M. Broomall (Whig) 41.03%
Pennsylvania 7	Samuel A. Bridges	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Republican gain.	Samuel C. Bradshaw (Republican) 51.03% Samuel A. Bridges (Democratic) 48.97%
Pennsylvania 8	J. Glancy Jones	Democratic	1854	Incumbent re-elected.	J. Glancy Jones (Democratic) 59.77% John C. Myers (Whig) 40.23%
Pennsylvania 9	Isaac E. Hiester	Whig	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Independent gain.	Anthony E. Roberts (Independent Whig) 39.38% Isaac E. Hiester (Whig) 33.79% Joseph S. Lefevre (Democratic) 26.84%
Pennsylvania 10	Ner Middleswarth	Whig	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Whig hold.	John C. Kunkel (Whig) 55.99% Amos Boughter (Democratic) 43.01% George A. Seiler (Independent) 1.00%
Pennsylvania 11	Christian M. Straub	Democratic	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Whig gain.	James H. Campbell (Republican) 38.87% William L. Dewart (Democratic) 36.68% Joseph W. Cake (Democratic) 21.90% Kimber Cleaver (Know Nothing) 2.56%
Pennsylvania 12	Hendrick B. Wright	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Whig gain.	Henry Mills Fuller (Whig) 56.26% Hendrick B. Wright (Democratic) 43.74%
Pennsylvania 13	Asa Packer	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Asa Packer (Democratic) 58.67% Edward F. Stewart (Whig) 41.33%
Pennsylvania 14	Galusha A. Grow	Democratic	1850	Incumbent re-elected.	Galusha A. Grow (Democratic) 95.22% Jim Grow (Independent) 4.56% Olin L. Hawley (Independent) 0.23%

Rhode Island

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Rhode Island 1	Thomas Davis	Democratic	1853	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Nathan B. Durfee (Know Nothing) Thomas Davis (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]
Rhode Island 2	Benjamin Babock Thurston	Democratic	1851	Incumbent re-elected. Know Nothing gain.	Benjamin Babock Thurston (Know Nothing) [data unknown/missing]

South Carolina

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
South Carolina 1	John McQueen	Democratic	1849 (special)	Incumbent re-elected.	John McQueen (Democratic) 67.44% I. D. Wilson (Unknown) 32.56%
South Carolina 2	William Aiken Jr.	Democratic	1850	Incumbent re-elected.	William Aiken Jr. (Democratic) 96.44% W. C. Clayton (Unknown) 3.56%
South Carolina 3	Laurence M. Keitt	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Laurence M. Keitt (Democratic) 100.00% unopposed
South Carolina 4	Preston S. Brooks	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Preston S. Brooks (Democratic) 66.84% A. C. Garlington (Unknown) 33.16%
South Carolina 5	James L. Orr	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	James L. Orr (Democratic) 100.00% unopposed
South Carolina 6	William W. Boyce	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	William W. Boyce (Democratic) 100.00% unopposed

Tennessee

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Tennessee 1
Tennessee 2
Tennessee 3
Tennessee 4
Tennessee 5
Tennessee 6
Tennessee 7
Tennessee 8
Tennessee 9
Tennessee 10

Texas

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Texas 1	George W. Smyth	Democratic	1853	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	Lemuel D. Evans (Know Nothing) 50.10% Matthias Ward (Democratic) 49.90%
Texas 2	Peter Hansborough Bell	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Peter H. Bell (Democratic) 60.76% John Hancock (Know Nothing) 39.24%

Vermont

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Vermont 1	James Meacham	Whig	1849 (Special)	Incumbent re-elected.	James Meacham (Whig) 71.35% Solomon W. Jewett (Democratic) 28.65%
Vermont 2	Andrew Tracy	Whig	1852	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain.	Justin S. Morrill (Republican) 50.26% J.W. Parker (Democratic) 35.07% Oscar L. Shafter (Free Soil) 14.68%
Vermont 3	Alvah Sabin	Whig	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Alvah Sabin (Whig) 68.54% William Heywood (Democratic) 31.46%

Virginia

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Virginia 1	Thomas H. Bayly	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Thomas H. Bayly (Democratic) 84.5% Robert L. Montague (None) 10.2%
Virginia 2	John Millson	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	John Millson (Democratic) 53.3% Watts (Know Nothing) 46.7%
Virginia 3	John S. Caskie	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	John S. Caskie (Democratic) 52.1% William C. Scott (Know Nothing) 47.9%
Virginia 4	William Goode	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	William Goode (Democratic) 61.3% Littleton Tazewell (Know Nothing) 38.7%
Virginia 5	Thomas S. Bocock	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Thomas S. Bocock (Democratic) 57.3% Nathaniel C. Claiborne (Know Nothing) 42.7%
Virginia 6	Paulus Powell	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Paulus Powell (Democratic) 56.7% Ligon (Know Nothing) 43.3%
Virginia 7	William Smith	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	William Smith (Democratic) 78.0% P. Johnson Barbour (Independent) 13.8% David Funsten (Independent) 8.2%
Virginia 8	Charles J. Faulkner	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Charles J. Faulkner (Democratic) 50.7% Alexander Boteler (Know Nothing) 49.3%
Virginia 9	John Letcher	Democratic	1851	Incumbent re-elected.	Thomas H. Bayly (Democratic) 98.1% Alexander H. H. Stuart (None) 1.9%
Virginia 10	Zedekiah Kidwell	Democratic	1853	Incumbent re-elected.	Zedekiah Kidwell (Democratic) 54.5% William K. Pendleton (Know Nothing) 45.5%
Virginia 11	Charles S. Lewis	Democratic	1853	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Know Nothing gain.	John S. Carlile (Know Nothing) 51.2% Charles S. Lewis (Democratic) 48.8%
Virginia 12	Henry A. Edmundson	Democratic	1849	Incumbent re-elected.	Henry A. Edmundson (Democratic) 54.0% Waller R. Staples (Know Nothing) 46.0%
Virginia 13	Fayette McMullen	Democratic	1849	Incumbent re-elected.	Fayette McMullen (Democratic) 59.2% Trigg (Know Nothing) 40.8%

Wisconsin

Election results in Wisconsin for 1854:[7]

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Wisconsin 1	Daniel Wells Jr.	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Daniel Wells Jr. (Democratic) 54.6% Wyman Spooner (Republican) 45.4%
Wisconsin 2	Ben C. Eastman	Democratic	1850	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain.	Cadwallader C. Washburn (Republican) 59.5% Otis Hoyt (Democratic) 39.8% David Taylor (None) 0.7%
Wisconsin 3	John B. Macy	Democratic	1852	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Republican gain.	Charles Billinghurst (Republican) 55.9% John B. Macy (Democratic) 36.0% Harvey G. Turner (Independent) 8.1%

Non-voting delegates

33rd Congress

District	Incumbent			This race
	Delegate	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Nebraska Territory	New seat			New territory. New delegate elected December 12, 1854.[8][9] Democratic gain.	Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]

34th Congress

District	Incumbent			This race
	Delegate	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Kansas Territory	New seat			New territory. New delegate elected December 20, 1854. Democratic gain.	John Wilkins Whitfield (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]
Minnesota Territory	Henry Mower Rice	Democratic	1852	Incumbent re-elected.	Henry Mower Rice (Democratic) 46.00% William Rainey Marshall (Republican) 32.46% David Olmsted (Anti-Nebraska Democratic) 21.54%[10]
Nebraska Territory	Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings	Democratic	1854	Incumbent retired. New delegate elected November 5, 1855.[8] Democratic hold.	Bird Chapman (Democratic) 55.16% Hiram Pitt Bennet (Anti-Nebraska) 44.84%[lower-alpha 11][11][12]
Oregon Territory	Joseph Lane	Democratic	1851	Incumbent re-elected.	Joseph Lane (Democratic) [data unknown/missing]

See also

• 1854 United States elections
• 1824–1854 List of United States House of Representatives elections
• 1854 and 1855 United States Senate elections
• 33rd United States Congress
• 34th United States Congress

Notes

1. Includes two Anti-Broderick Democrats (California), one Anti-Benton Democrat (Missouri), one Hard-Shell Democrat (New York), and four Soft-Shell Democrats (New York)
2. Counted as part of the plurality-winning "Opposition Party."
3. While Martis, et al. count 51 Know Nothings, Dubin (p. 174) counts 52.
4. Includes votes for those who ran labeled as a Anti-Broderick Democrat, Anti-Benton Democrat, Hard Shell Democrat or Soft-Shell Democrat.
5. Included one Independent Whig: Anthony Ellmaker Roberts of Pennsylvania.
6. Includes votes for those who ran labeled as a Independent, Benton Democrat, Independent Democrat, or Independent American.
7. Compared to Whigs, Free Soilers, and Independents elected in the previous election of 1852.
8. In 1845, Congress passed a law providing for a uniform date for choosing presidential electors (see: Statutes at Large, 28th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 721). Congressional elections were unaffected by this law, but the date was gradually adopted by the states for Congressional elections as well.
9. At-large district abolished in redistricting.
10. Compared to just Whig Party members elected in the previous election of 1852. If Whig Party and Free Soil Party members are counted together, the increase was only 25.
11. Bennett led 578-560 in returns that included the results of Ottoe (175-95 Bennett), Richardson (76-36 Bennett), Dacotah (25-0 Chapman), and Burt (14-10 Chapman) counties. Gov. Izard excluded those results due to irregularities.

References

1. http://mcimaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/34th-Congress.png
2. Martis, p. 108–109.
3. "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, House of United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
4. Dubin, p. 174.
5. Nevins, Allan (1947). Ordeal of the Union, Volume II: A House Dividing 1852-1857. New York. pp. 413–415.
6. https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=115030
7. "Wisconsin U.S. House Election Results" (PDF). Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 5, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
8. "Collections of the NSHS - Volume 18". www.usgennet.org.
9. "Our Campaigns - NE Territorial Delegate - Initial Election Race - Nov 07, 1854". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
10. "Our Campaigns - MN Territorial Delegate Race - Aug 05, 1855". www.ourcampaigns.com.
11. "Our Campaigns - NE Territorial Delegate Race - Nov 07, 1854". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
12. Greeley, Horace (1868). "The Tribune Almanac for the Years L838 to L868, Inclusive: Comprehending the Politician's Register and the Whig Almanac, Containing Annual Election Returns by States and Counties ... Political Essays ... &c., Making a Connected Political History for Thirty Years". New York tribune. Retrieved September 16, 2020.

Bibliography

• Dubin, Michael J. (March 1, 1998). United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997: The Official Results of the Elections of the 1st Through 105th Congresses. McFarland and Company. ISBN 978-0786402830.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (January 1, 1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789-1989. Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0029201701.
• Moore, John L., ed. (1994). Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections (Third ed.). Congressional Quarterly Inc. ISBN 978-0871879967.
• "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, House of United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 21, 2015.

External links

• Office of the Historian (Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)